Painterdudes Art Club

[4u2sm0ke]

:ciao:


pass this :48: around the Art club...be sure not burn any photos:giggle:

 

[Tsuto]

.....nice work Tsuto.......please tell us what media you are using....ink wash, water color? charcoal maybe?

The first 4 I posted are all just pencil, I did use some charcoal around the edges of the Jimi Hendrix one.

The two paintings are acrylic on canvas

The next one is a side-by-side of parts of an intaglio etching on a copper plate and then the last two are wood cut prints. I studied general studio art in college but I'm focusing on wood cut printmaking right now

 

[painterdude]

Tsuto......amazing.....I loved print making when I studied....we used Zinc plates and I still have my only wood cut which has warped from just getting old....your pencil work is great also

.....I only used my computer software now.....don't know why for sure, maybe it's the fact there is no mess and I have several million color choices that are easily accessible....

AND.....thank you HICK for stopping by....how hot is Colorado right now?

AND....4u2....did you get the STANK from OREGON? Should of been there by now but if not I'll send up some Mexican food dissolved with a brewski and some sour cream, hot sauce and chips...and raisins later on to give it some 'gas' for movement

 

[painterdude]

.....thought I'd post some sheets.....

 

[Hick]

AND.....thank you HICK for stopping by....how hot is Colorado right now?

depends PD.. was 107F on the plains out east a ways yesterday and forecast a tad 'hotter' for today. But up around 9-10K it was in the 70s. Was pretty close to 90 @ my place, and thats too dang hot
North and mountains are stream flooding from snow runoff, and the southeast is so dry, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone to lick a postage stamp for you. .. a "mixed bag" ??

 

[painterdude]

Hick, you did it again.....you made me laugh out loud.....congratulations dude....sorry your butt is frying....

 

[ArtVandolay]

I call it Untitled

 

[painterdude]

....Art, what a pure pleasure to have you stop by

....how about some original art my friend?

....come on Art, if you can write your name you should be able to scribble something that we will call 'art' by Art....Pdude

 

[painterdude]

....hey, it's August already and I am walking like a nine month old baby and using my dead mother's cane to get around....and I have no energy for being creative.....boo hoo

...HICK...hope your weather has cooled some.....we seem to have a constant high around 65 and lows in the mid 50's....real nice to sit outside and bee ess...

 

[midnight_toker]

Soooo, long time no post. I had to shut down my grow, move my studio, divorce and then move my studio again all in less than 6 months, lol.

This is my busy season for my bread and butter (portraits), but I'm also working on a couple new projects. I keep being drawn towards hollow trees for some reason. Big, hollow trees. I'm photographing figures with these hollow trees. I have no idea what direction I'm going with it, but right now, my project feels....hollow. I need way more spiritual investment in it and I feel like I need to add....something. Not sure what. I have been messing with a professional pigment based printer so I can run thick, chunky papers and fabrics through it....I'm thinking of printing these on silk and then burning or otherwise rough housing them and then wetting them with something befor emounting to get some transparency going, plus the cool flow of the fabric wrinkles and lines to play with.

Also still working with polaroids: textures+figures to convey emotional states...I'm kinda bored with that, lol. BUT, I'll have a couple more shows to do with these before I call it a day.

Doesn't pad the wallet, but certainly feeds the he{art}.

Good to be back. I'll try to do fancy schmancy weed porn at least. Since my work is publicly recognizable (locally, very locally, but still, lol), and has people in it, well, it's hard to share that, but I love to talk art.

 

[midnight_toker]

So, Painter- are you saying you are drawing these through computer software? Or paper? My daughter is really getting into drawing in some illustration program- don't remember which, but not PhotoShop...

 

[painterdude]

midnight.....what a absolute pleasure to read your post....makes my heart go pitter patter and perhaps some goose bumps on top of that

don't know what it is like to make a living selling art but you seem to be able to pull it off enough to stay alive and probably feed the kids

I also like to do 'faces' but I would never call them portraits due to the fact that the subject would never recognize themselves

I use Corel Painter X.....it offers a sheeeeeeet load of media and each one offers a sheeeeeeeeeeeeet load of brushes plus you have options controlling the opacity and size of the brush you are using......or the pencil....or the ink pen.....etc.....etc....quite complicated and I often wonder who wrote the software.....and then you can play with your drawing/painting in Photoshop special effects.....your daughter would love this application

 

[midnight_toker]

She is salivating over the new Bamboo, big time. She has one of my hand me down Wacoms right now and it's getting pretty worn out. The poor thing has her stylus pen taped together with scotch tape, lol.

I have a very simple life. I am not a big consumer. Hell, I even forage for part of my food and I never, ever buy anything new if I can avoid it. So, I can live on the very minimal income I make- LIVE being the operative word there. I am so not a part of the rat race.

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said:

“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Why waste this short life doing something that doesn't bring me the most happiness I can get out of life?

 

[midnight_toker]

Have you ever considered small gallery sales? They keep 20-40%, but you still make some decent money. The small galleries in tourist towns are usually looking for new blood, lol...if you do stuff that is tourist friendly (always there is some compromise that way, but hey, it beats assembling widgets for a wage).

 

[4u2sm0ke]

:ciao: painterdude

its been a while since I shared in here ...As ya know Seattle HempFest is here:yay: took a picture of this painting that was donated for the silent Auction at the VIP PArty Last night..Wish I the $$ it went for 300 Dollars and the fella gave an additional 100 for the cause...me and me girl stared atit for a while while we tryn out the free VApe hits Hope ya going better today my friend..Say hello to wifey please

 

[painterdude]

...hey 4u2, great to see you once again.....never been to the Hemp Festival so I wouldn't know what to expect other than a great adventure.....thanks for posting the painting

midnight.....not familiar with 'Bamboo'....help me out here

I've resisted showing my art for the last 25 years due to some redneck feedback and some comments from viewers on a Sign In log during the show....also was critized by the committee judging the entries even before the show was hung.....I'm just not tough skinned enough to deal with this stuff so I opted to disappear from the scene

Tourist friendly is a questionable area of interest and I'd rather not second guess their taste.....but who knows, I can always change my mind

 

[midnight_toker]

Bamboo is the new high tech Wacom.

How sad that people have to be such dumba$$es. You might just display in a small local coffee house or restaurant just to help heal from that experience.

 

[midnight_toker]

4U2Smoke- that makes me wanna make some canna-art

 

[painterdude]

Back when I was a young teenager, my Grandmother came and visited with her cat. The second she (my Grandmother) opened her car door that cat took off out that car door like someone lit her butt up with some alcohol. Never to be seen again...........or so we thought........ about six years later we found the cat living under a house about 1 mile away. So just maybe someday he will show up...If not stop by the shelter and get another one. There are many cats in the shelters the would just love living with you.

Say Hi to Mrs. Painterdude :ciao:

I will say hi Mr. Duck.......it's been 20 months now since the Gray Cat went missing......'smoky'......let's give him some more time

Oh, here's a weird drawing and I've found several of them......they are quite old and were conceived even before that......

 

[painterdude]

....is this an Art Club? Or, someplace where I can talk to myself? Hi...haven't got much on my mind except my son is here from the midwest for ten days....he wanted to go out on a charter boat to catch some salmon but 16 foot waves were keeping all the boats from leaving the harbor.....